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Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Bout of Books 8.0 Sign Up and Updates

I am signing up for the Bout of Books 8.0 Read-a-thon. Here is the information

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 19th and runs through Sunday, August 25th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 8.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

Goals

Here is a list of books I would like to read during the week:

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler

A Deal with the Devil by Martin Suter

Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by M C Beaton

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Ultimate Spider-Man and his amazing friends

The Curse of the Bronze Lamp by John Dickson Carr

I would also participate in some of the challenges and visit other participants.

Updates

Monday August 19

After a few false starts, I settled down with The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

No of pages Read: 80

Challenges: participated both in the Pairathon and Bookish Bucketlist Challenge

Tuesday August 20

No of Pages Read :192

Books Read: Rations: A Very Peculiar History: No Added Butter

Challenge

Re-title Challenge

For this challenge I would retitle Agatha Raisin and The Terrible Tourist as Murder in Cyprus.

Participated in TBR Pile challenge.
1. Which 5 books are at the top of your TBR pile at this moment?The top 5 books on my TBR pile are determined by Library Due Dates and Challenges I am doing this year. So here they are Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by M C BeatonA Deal with the Devil by Martin SuterThe Curse of the Bronze Lamp by John Dickson CarrKilled at the whim of a Hat by Collin CotterillDouble Blank by Yasmina Khadra

2. If I gave you a wad of cash and sent you into a bookshop right now, which 5 books would you buy to add to the stack?Here are some books I would love to buy now No man's Nightingale by Ruth RendellStrange Shores by Arnaldur IndridasonDead Man's Time by Peter JamesDead Water by Anne CleevesHow the light gets in by Louise Penny

Book Spine Poetry

Blind Fury Necessay as Blood

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Bury your Dead

Bleed for me

The song is you

The unbearable lightness of Being

Thursday August 22

Book Road Trip Challenge

This is easy one for me beacuse I am doing Around the World in 80 books Challenege. So here are the top 10 places to visit

Finland: Snow Angels by James Thomson (Northern Lights)

Australia: The Bat by Jo Nesbo

Spain: Death by the Galician Shore by Domingo Villar

Canada: Trick of the light by Louise Penny

Cyprus: Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by M C Beaton

Budapest: The Man who went up in Smoke by Maj Sjowall and Per Whaloo

Venice: The Golden Egg by Donna Leon

Turkey: Inferno by Dan Brown

Japan: Villain by Shuichi Yoshida

Update

This has been a super busy week and I thought the readathon would motivate me to sqeeze in a few hours every day so I could read but I couldn't find time to read anything more than what I already started with. My total reading did not amount to much, I read and finshed two very short books Rations: A Very Peculiar History: No Added Butter and Ultimate Spiderman and his Amazing Friends (Graphic Novel) and a hundred pages of Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. I did participate and enjoy the challenges, they were fun and stress relieving and visited some blogs.